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Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageTreasurer Scott Morrison explains the budget in the lock-up.AAP/Lukas Coch

Scott Morrison has delivered a surprisingly big-taxing budget that pays for the last burial rites of the toxic Abbott legacy of 2014.

The Medicare levy will be increased to fund the hyper-expensive NDIS, and Australia’s big banks are being slugged with a new tax. The...

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